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Home › Posts tagged Japan

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Hey India!

By Frank Posted on January 12, 2014 Posted in Consulting, Travel, Website Tagged with Automation, Canada, China, India, Industrial Automation Hands On, Japan, Malaysia, trade shows, travel

Yesterday I received an invitation to attend the International Automation Exhibition 2014 to be held in Mumbai, India next October. Now as many who have read this blog know, I love to travel, especially to other countries. This May I …

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Genba

By Frank Posted on July 28, 2013 Posted in Consulting, Lean Manufacturing, Travel Tagged with Gemba, Genba, Japan, Lean

Have you ever been to Genba? Let me take you to a mystical, wonderful land that far too many people overlook in their travels. Genba is a Japanese word that means “the actual (or the real) place”. To understand a …

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The Lean/Six Sigma “Club”

By Frank Posted on September 18, 2011 Posted in Lean Manufacturing Tagged with Buy-In, buzzwords, Japan, kaizen, kanban, poka-yoke, Six Sigma

As I work on my Six Sigma classes through Purdue I am reminded often of my previous experiences with companies who have Lean/Six Sigma programs. Back in the late nineties we did a lot of work for Avery Dennison, who …

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More About Japan

By Frank Posted on May 15, 2011 Posted in Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Japan, travel

As mentioned in my previous post I recently took a trip to Japan. If you have ever been or plan to go there is something you should know: in general, the Japanese love gadgets and automation. The picture above is …

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Japanese Words…

By Frank Posted on May 11, 2011 Posted in Lean Manufacturing, Poka-Yoke, Techniques Tagged with Japan, kaizen, kanban, poka-yoke, travel

For all of my thousands of followers I’m sure you all noticed that I didn’t post for the last couple of weeks. I spent some time on a badly needed vacation, visiting Seattle and Japan. As mentioned in a previous …

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